The Byelorussian Communist Organisation (Russian: Белорусская коммунистическая организация, abbreviated БКО, translit. 'BKO') was a communist group in Belarus, led by Usievalad Ihnatoŭski.[1] It emerged from the organisation 'Young Belarus' (Маладая Беларусь), which was founded in the Minsk Teaching Institute in 1917. In 1918 the group became an autonomous section of the . On 1 January the group broke away and formed the BKO as a separate party. In August 1920 BKO merged into the Communist Party of Lithuania and Byelorussia.[2] [3]